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Hoover
Dam
is an awe inspiring building. The size and particulars are
explained on my
Hoover
Dam
pages. What we want to do here is to look at the generators
that are inside the dam.
The dam tour ... takes you inside and through Hoover Dam to a spot where you
can get a good view of the generator area. The inside the dam part of the tour
starts by leaving the elevators and going through a dark leaky looking tunnel.The first impression that everybody gets is how perfectly clean this facility is. Hoover Dam is perfectly clean inside. There is no cleaner place outside of an operating room or a 'clean room' that is this clean and polished. |
 Most
of the inside of Hoover Dam is concrete is course but when you get to the
bottom there are huge rooms that house the generators.There are 2 wings to the Hoover Dam power plant, one on the Nevada side and one on the Arizona side. There are none main generator units on the Arizona side of the Colorado River and 8 on the Nevada side of the river. |
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The
total rated capacity of all the generators is 2,074 megawatts.